Historical information: Judy Gray Crawford studied linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley in the late 1960s, during which time she conducted field research on Mojave and other Yuman languages of the southwestern United States. Her 1973 M.A. thesis at Idaho State University was a comparative study of Pomoan and Yuman languages.

Scope and content: The Papers document Judy Gray Crawford's research on the Yuman languages of California and Arizona, especially Mojave. The collection includes Mojave texts, wordlists, and grammatical elicitation from field trips conducted in 1968 and 1972. Also included are wordlists from several other Yuman languages from an initial reconnaissance trip in July 1967 and a photocopy of Crawford's Idaho State University M.A. thesis. Crawford's Mojave consultants included Nellie Brown, Duane Drennan, Elmer Gates, Robert Martin, Rose Martin, Flora Sands, and Emmett Van Fleet. She also worked with Lillian Hayes (Cocopa), Phyllis Hayes (Cocopa), Grace Mitchell (Yavapai), Lorenzo Sinyella (Havasupai), and Felipa Ida Sundust (Maricopa).

Preferred citation: Elicitation of words and phrases, such as "The ladder is under the house.", LA 2.014, in "The James M. Crawford collection of Cocopa sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17614

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Preferred citation: Text of "Invitation to a feast", LA 2.025, in "The James M. Crawford collection of Cocopa sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17625

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Description: First of 14 Yuman field notebooks. Labeled "Book #1". Mainly elicited vocabulary.(The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file CrawfordJu.001.001.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in CrawfordJu.001.001.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file CrawfordJu.001.001-image_metadata.txt.)

Preferred citation: [Yuman field notes], CrawfordJu.001.001, in "Judy Gray Crawford Papers on the Mojave Language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2V40S40